Background Patient education materials should be written at a level that is understandable
for patients with low health literacy. The aims of this study are (1) to review the literature on …

There is a severe shortage of donor corneas available worldwide for transplantation, with
the number of patients in need of transplant greatly exceeding the number of cornea tissues …

Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and disability worldwide.
Nevertheless, the majority of patients do not know they have the disease and detection of …

Background Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a chronic, progressive ocular disease
causing loss of the optic nerve rim and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) with associated …

PURPOSE: To describe the health literacy of subjects with open angle glaucoma and to
investigate the hypothesis that low health literacy is associated with poor glaucoma …

OBJECTIVE: Central corneal thickness (CCT) has emerged as an important predictive factor
for the development of glaucomatous damage. Although a child's cornea reaches adult …

Objective To examine the associations of provider–patient communication, glaucoma
medication adherence self-efficacy, and outcome expectations with glaucoma medication …

Background Primary angle closure disease (PACD) is classified into several groups. Primary
angle closure suspect is defined as≥ 180 degrees of iridotrabecular contact (ITC) without …

OBJECTIVE: To test an educational intervention targeted to health literacy level with the goal
of improving glaucoma medication adherence. METHODS: One hundred and twenty-seven …

Objective To assess glaucoma medication adherence in children, hypothesizing that poor
parental health literacy and eye drop instillation by the child are associated with worse …